Finding Aid to The HistoryMakers ® Video Oral History with Robert Lockwood, Jr. Overview of the Collection Repository: The HistoryMakers®1900 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60616
[email protected] www.thehistorymakers.com Creator: Lockwood, Robert Jr., 1915-2006 Title: The HistoryMakers® Video Oral History Interview with Robert Lockwood, Jr., Dates: January 14, 2005 Bulk Dates: 2005 Physical 4 Betacame SP videocasettes (1:44:12). Description: Abstract: Blues guitarist Robert Lockwood, Jr. (1915 - 2006 ) was a legendary blues guitarist who was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1989. Lockwood was interviewed by The HistoryMakers® on January 14, 2005, in Cleveland, Ohio. This collection is comprised of the original video footage of the interview. Identification: A2005_017 Language: The interview and records are in English. Biographical Note by The HistoryMakers® Guitarist and blues legend Robert Lockwood, Jr., a native of Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, was born on March 27, 1915. Lockwood, who held honorary doctorates from Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University, received his early education in Arkansas. Lockwood’s first instrument was the pump organ, which he began to play as a young child; he later learned to play guitar from his stepfather, legendary blues artist Robert Johnson. Lockwood left school and began his professional career at age fifteen, traveling throughout the Mississippi Delta playing in juke joints and age fifteen, traveling throughout the Mississippi Delta playing in juke joints and parties with Johnson, harpist Sonny Boy Williamson (a.k.a. Rice Miller), Johnny Shines, and others. Lockwood made his first recordings in 1941 with Doc Clayton on his famous Bluebird Sessions in Aurora, Illinois.